Helsinki still had a coal burning plant in the middle of the city. The green party started to lobby for it’s closing 10 years, and were met with arguments that it’s impossible. It closed today.
The Climate Change Thread
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Homegrove Its amazing how much the UK uses gas to generate electricity, almost 43% fossil fuels over the last year
What is worse, coal or gas for emissions?
We are also seeing home gas boilers due to be outlawed due to emissions to use air source heat pumps which use electricity, but hang on, almost half of our electricity is generated by….burning gas
I am surprised how low our generation by nuclear technology is, I’m glad we are at least trying to expand this capability
Also, we’d be fooked without wind generation, we are very lucky to have lots of coastline with plenty of wind.
The question is, how are other countries without this natural advantage looking to achieve net zero? For example Germany?
Hursty we have an air pump. We heat our whole house with it when it’s over -5 C outside. When it dips below that we open a few radiators, which are heated with oil, same as our hot water. There are air pump-systems powerful enough to replace our oik furnace too, but they cost about 10K so we’re still saving money for it. We’re in no rush, as we only go through about 1000 litres of heating oil per year.
What are your views on the low carbon city transport option of e-scooters @Amps?
It would appear they are heading to the ban list in some places, citing issues around safety, even though people die or are injured no matter whether they walk, cycle, or drive to work
Seems like it could be a way to ensure taxes are buoyed by banning them? There isn’t much tax revenue generated from their use, no CAZ income etc
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Manchildren who need to grow the fuck up and prepubescent miscreants in charge of fucking killing machines. How they passed any form of road traffic safety or even the most basic of health and safety risk assessments I have no fucking idea.
Death traps for both rider and pedestrian. I fucking hate them and any cunt who rides one.
Cankles-McJeggings Lol, do you have them in the outback?
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Hursty They’re a lovely idea, but the reality has it’s issues. I think somewhere like Amsterdam they make a lot of sense, but most of the western world just doesn’t have the infrastructure for them. If we focused on more dedicated hard kerbed cycle lanes for cyclists it’d be a start.
As ever, the government has no interest in getting the tiny penis crew out of their twat panzers, an easy to solve problem, so they’re not about to make any big pay outs for for bike infrastructure any time soon.
The e-scooters work well here in Istanbul. Granted, health & safety isn’t a concept here so there could be hundreds dying on the roads here without me knowing.
Thanks again for your time.
Regards.
Homegrove Yeah, the main argument for Northern and Southern cities is that the elements become an issue, or for anywhere that isn’t flat, the hills become an issue. But it’s mostly bollocks. Plenty of people cycle in cold climates and plenty of people cycle in mountainous areas. The Swiss fuckin love a push bike.
And it works the other way too, there are lots of flat places with mild climates where nobody cycles because the infrastructure is all car orientated.
Good on the Oulu civic crew for getting their shit together 
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7 days later
Schiphol airport say they are banning private jets, which is a start.
Lol, drop in the ocean.
Will they ban E scooters in Holland though?
7 days later
They can’t even stand to see you return a fuckin bottle. They must make the maximum amount of profit at all costs.
Love the idea of bottle deposit scheme, works really well in other countries. Hopefully it will eventually come into existence
We’ve perfected it. I can’t understand how hard it is for other countries to do it.
We had in the UK many years ago. I think it ended in the 70’s or early 80’s
They have one in Croatia, seems to work really well. You pick up a crate at the shop, as in a proper plastic crate and pop the empties in when finished
It had to cut down on littering at the very least
Dubman Probably went out fashion as the rise in plastic bottles & cartons hit the market.
No flies on you, Dubbers!
Lol!
Amps fall off has been spectacular. If he was a DJ he would be Jeremy Healy. From much loved to absolutely detested and derided ginger bastard in the space of about two years.
GU/Bedrock Amps:
JC Amps:
That second photo of Sander is of him at Glastonbury.
Cheers!
a month later
France has banned domestic short-haul flights where train alternatives exist, in a bid to cut carbon emissions.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-65687665
Not much, but it’s a start. Won’t stop China concreating half of Tibet this summer.
Another protest that won’t make the news.
14 days later
Out of nowhere a massive haze rolled into town today. I have never seen anything like this in my life. It became hard to breath, a sudden fire smell hit the air and then a brown cloud covered the entire city. You could see it coming. Now the sky is an unsettling orange, even at night. Evidently smoke from wild fires in Canada have drifted all the way down to eastern Pa. Totally normal!